When he had been specially chosen to take part in a dangerous frontier expedition, it was his father who had appeared miserably anxious, but it was with his mother, softened, carried out of herself, that the whole neighbourhood had eagerly sympathised when there had come the glorious news that Bayworth Kaye had been mentioned in despatches for an act of reckless courage and gallantry, and recommended for the Victoria Cross.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
He rewarded them miserably, and now he fears that they may publish it.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
I was miserably cold.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook